Eschweiler
Eschweiler is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Dutch-Belgian border, and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Aachen and 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Cologne.
Eschweiler is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Dutch-Belgian border, and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Aachen and 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Cologne.
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Worth seeing in and around Eschweiler
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ursula-Chapel (Gressenich)
The Ursulakapelle is a catholic house of prayer in the German village of Gressenich, part of Stolberg, within the Diocese of Aachen.
5.2 km · Chapel · Wikipedia - 02Blausteinsee
The Blausteinsee Leisure and Recreation Area is an artificial lake north of the Eschweiler municipality in the Aachen district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its area is around 100 hectares and depth is 46m.
4.3 km · artificial lake in Eschweiler, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Holzheim Castle
Holzheim Castle is a lowland castle west of Heistern in the municipality of Langerwehe in the county of Düren in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It stands between Heistern and the Bovenberg Forest near Eschweiler-Nothberg and is used today as a farm and riding estate.
3.8 km · castle in Langerwehe, Germany · Wikipedia
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Getting to Eschweiler
- Airports
- Maastricht Aachen (MST), 38 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 61 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 62 km
- Stations
- Eschweiler Central Station, 2.2 km · Stolberg Central Station, 5.1 km · Langerwehe station, 5 km
- Köln (Cologne) → Eschweiler48 km · quickest by road, 1h · €6–8
- Düsseldorf → Eschweiler57 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €7–10
- Weeze → Eschweiler90 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €13–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Eschweiler
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Eschweiler. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlso, Liège (Lüttich) airport (( in Belgium is 45min by car and has some charter flights.
- Get inThere are several convenient possibilities to hitchhike to and from Aachen.
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Next door to Eschweiler
Eschweiler is 49 km from Köln, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Langerwehemunicipality in the Düren district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany5.5 km